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What does invidious mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a distinction) Offensively or unfairly discriminating.
  2. (of an action or task) Causing ill will towards the actor; causing offense.
  3. (of a thing) Causing envy or ill will towards the possessor.
  4. (obsolete) Envious, jealous.
  5. (obsolete) Detestable, hateful, odious.
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This question seems a valid one, but one should remember that such a stance might put the possessor of the truth in an invidious situation.
It would be invidious to undertake a half-baked presentation and evidence and half-baked cross examination.
I find myself in the invidious position of having to go out and ask whoever it is if they would mind waiting five minutes.
The novice manager accepts he finds himself in an invidious position following in the footsteps of a man who could have achieved no more.
The term brings to mind, rather, the importance of kinship relations in primitive societies, and provokes an invidious comparison to England.
The new levy would have precisely the same invidious impact on newspapers and the electronic media.

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